Founding Applied AI Engineer

Saphira AI is hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer in Remote. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

Location: Remote
Company size: 2–10
Posted: 4w ago
Via: Yc

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Job listing · Updated 22 AUG 2026

Founding Applied AI Engineer

Saphira AI· San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)View company profile

Job title: Founding Applied AI Engineer
Job location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/saphira-ai/jobs/xzdpKAm-founding-applied-ai-engineer
Job description: * We are looking for a Founding Applied AI engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate is someone with 5+ years of experience. We are looking for someone that has built AI driven workflows, agents, or applications from the ground up to serve specific business outcomes. * We are looking for ownership and evidence of architecting the technical foundations of AI first products that drove significant business value. You’d interface directly with the co-founders and would be treated as an equal as helping to drive these outcomes at Saphira. * Experience with integrating AI into production codebases. Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and a strong understanding of how AI relates to the problems we are trying to solve. Ability to understand and architect AI workflows that lead to delightful customer experiences. * Enhance our retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, ensuring our models effectively integrate and utilize diverse data sources. * Tech Stack: OpenAI, LlamaIndex, RAG, Llama open source models * Bonus points: * Ex-founder (raised venture $) * Built product as a founding engineer * Worked at a software for hardware company or hardware company

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